Hi all,
as I have not yet enough thraeds I can't post in the Development section. As the new SAGA LBC MOD V.0.6 is on the way (I am using 0.5.4) I would like to know how my partitions should be formatted using this mod?
Should everything be EXT4 or EXT3 or even a mixture as I have today.
I have flashed the recovery and I am now on 4EXTRecovery v2.1.0 which shows following FileSystems
system ext4
data ext3
cache ext3
sdcard fat32
When SAGA LBC MOD v0.6 is out I want to start from scratch with a perfect configured device.
Please advice what I should do.
THX
LBC Mod fully supports ext4, there is no reason to use ext3 for any partition as ext4 offers some performance increase. SD stays fat32 of course, there is no need for sd-ext on our phone.
Thanks for your quick answer.
I will then partition my Filesystem to EXT4.
Thank you.
masterl1983 said:
Hi all,
as I have not yet enough thraeds I can't post in the Development section. As the new SAGA LBC MOD V.0.6 is on the way (I am using 0.5.4) I would like to know how my partitions should be formatted using this mod?
Should everything be EXT4 or EXT3 or even a mixture as I have today.
I have flashed the recovery and I am now on 4EXTRecovery v2.1.0 which shows following FileSystems
system ext4
data ext3
cache ext3
sdcard fat32
When SAGA LBC MOD v0.6 is out I want to start from scratch with a perfect configured device.
Please advice what I should do.
THX
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Don't worry about doing any specific partitioning, ensure that you're using the correct RECOVERY EXT4.
If you're not then download EXT4 Recovery if you don't already have it and use CWM to flash it.
There is an option in EXT4 recovery which will show you the type of all of your partitions and another option that will convert any EXT3 to EXT4 without data loss.
Although the LBC WIPE script that it is recommended that you run before you flash LBC v0.5.3 will pre format all of these partitions in the correct format (EXT4) before you flash the ROM!
Hi there! I hope it's ok to post here and not in "general"
I've found some scripts about align ext partition.
What do you think about them, are they doing any good thing?
In order of upload:
I think:
1. converts ext3 to ext4 and align file system
2. align an ext4 file system
3. align an ext4 file system and disables journaling for better performance
Developers maype you can study a little those scripts and maybe you can use in roms or in flashing roms...
I tried all of them with twrp 2.2.2.1 and fail it does an error...maybe you can manage and make it work on our devices...
Thank's
which one is better? ext2, ext3, ext4 or FAT32? and using what tools I should partition the sdcard?
I am using cm9.2.2
before that, I partition sdcard with Amonra Recovery with ext2 and use link2sd and have a problem, some times sdcard removed unexpected, when I reboot sdcard is not read, I pull out the sdcard and insert, and sdcard read normally. I reboot and sdcard not read again, I do this many time and finally can read sdcard. but it happens over and over again. I try to format the phone and install app, move app like unrooted phone, the sdcard work fine..when I try use ext2 with link2sd some times its happend again.,
help me..sorry for my bad english, I am Indonesian.
thank you before..
If you want to know what other people use to do this here I come:
How I make the ext partition:
Minitool partition wizard (windows)
Gparted (Linux)
Clockwork 6.0 (only for CM10+)
I didn't have any trouble with that programs, but be careful with the Clockwork because formats ALL the SD card, the ext and the fat partition, so make sure you do a backup of the SD.
Format of the second partition:
Always ext4
Link App
Link2sd is the best, other caused troubles over the time (reboots, not reading the sd, not reading the ext partition, etc)
chalo99 said:
If you want to know what other people use to do this here I come:
How I make the ext partition:
Minitool partition wizard (windows)
Gparted (Linux)
Clockwork 6.0 (only for CM10+)
I didn't have any trouble with that programs, but be careful with the Clockwork because formats ALL the SD card, the ext and the fat partition, so make sure you do a backup of the SD.
Format of the second partition:
Always ext4
Link App
Link2sd is the best, other caused troubles over the time (reboots, not reading the sd, not reading the ext partition, etc)
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before that, I've use ext4, but cm9 not support, I change the kernel and still not support ext4, when I use ext3 its work fine..,
mirul_up said:
before that, I've use ext4, but cm9 not support, I change the kernel and still not support ext4, when I use ext3 its work fine..,
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I used ext4 in all CM from 7 to 11 and no trouble, but always formatting after every wipe with gparted or minitool, because Clockwork 5.0 seem to not format well the ext partition, so after every wipe you should reformat with those programs.
From my experience use ext3, it is good and compatible with everything, allmost
maharu567 said:
From my experience use ext3, it is good and compatible with everything, allmost
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EXT4 has a tendency to corrupt
(At least for me )
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Ext4 works great.
(Partition it with AmonRa recovery for a 100% guarantee of success, buggs with clockwork)
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When i wipe my phone and format data with f2fs there is around 520mb of space already taken but when i use ext4 there is only around 120mb taken.
Can anyone explain this? Thanks.
This is normal. F2FS simply has higher overhead than EXT4.
Hi all! I'm running CM13 Snapshot, with ElementalX. As now I formatted /data and /cache in F2FS. Would it be worth to also format /system in F2FS, since is mostly read-only?
Well you simply can't, every ROM installation will re-format /system to ext4 automatically. And even if you could, you probably can't notice any improvements on the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 still has pretty powerful hardware which can handle almost everything without any problems so I wonder why you would want to have /system formatted to F2FS. In my experience things never really got that much better with the /cache and /data formatted to F2FS, only benchmarks scores got a bit higher. In my opinion F2FS is pretty useless on this device. Could be helpful for lower end ones.
Thanks for the answer! I must say i jumped on the f2fs train without doing any benchmarks, and also going from KK to LP long time ago, so I couldn't do a proprer comparison. Also I didn't think about the rom installation process reformatting...well than my question is pretty useless
Short answer, no. From what I've read, F2FS has slightly better write speeds than ext4 and slightly worse read speed. On a partition that you write often to, such as data and cache, it could be beneficial because of the better write speed. But on the system partition, it would even cause performance drop since it's read-only.
No.
The system partition is mounted mostly with ro permissions anyway.
Write operations are few and rare.
Finally, f2fs seems to have more overhead (allocates more space) which might be an issue for devices with small-ish system partitions.